Edin Zenun: Teget Event

Opening
Tuesday, October 18, 6 – 9PM

We are proud to present Edin Zenun’s second solo show at the gallery. Teget gathers Zenun’s latest works, including a historically charged installation with tiles made by the artist and architecturally altering the gallery space.

Reflecting on the underlying knowledge of collapse that intertwined with the hedonistic dream of the Weimar Republic, Teget continues Edin Zenun’s inquiry into the historical space between abstraction and figuration. He brings together the short-lived architectural turn of brick expressionism, with its excess of material inherited ornamentation and emotion of form, with North American modernist Marsden Hartley, who famously painted his lover, a German officer, by the medals, ribbons and flags of his uniform.

Edin Zenun (born 1987, Skopje) focuses his work on painting and its intrinsic questionings around composition, the interaction of form and color, and its materiality by exploring handmade pigments, oil, and clay, while he examines the space between abstraction and figuration. Zenuns’ work has been extensively exhibited in solo- or duo-exhibitions in Austria and internationally, including: Sotheby’s (Vienna), Bastian gallery (London), wieoftnoch (Karlsruhe, 2021) and Bologna (Amsterdam, 2020). His work has been featured in notable group shows like: Kollaborationen, MUMOK (Vienna), Gallery Claas Reiss (London) both in 2022, Vienna Biennale, MAK (Vienna) and Up Close, CFHILL (Stockholm), both 2021, Pina at 4649 (Tokio, 2020) and Über das Neue. Junge Szenen in Wien, Belvedere21 (Vienna), Pressure, Release?, Portals Nous (Balears), Souvenir, Spazio Murat (Bari) and About the New, Innsbrucker Kunsthalle, all in 2019.

The installation was made possible with the generous support of Christopher Steinweber and Daniel Stuhlpfarrer. The exhibition is accompanied by a fictional text of author Ivan Cheng, olfactive consultation and supply by Michael Part.

In the adjacent space, Collectors Agenda are showing Judith Fegerl and Andreas Duscha in duo with two new work series.